Bug 17143 – linux-headers out of date

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description mccary 2003-03-09 09:18:58 UTC]

wireless-tools uses version 14 of the wireless spec, as well as my 2.4.20-ppc-r2 
kernel, and the airport module. however, the latest /usr/include/asm and 
/usr/include/linux stuffs is populated by linux-headers-2.4.18. i had to manually 
copy the data into these directories and recompile wireless-tools to use my card. i 
see there is an ebuild for linux-headers-2.4.20. perhaps this should be unmasked? 
 
-brady 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install linux-headers-2.4.18, and use kernel 2.4.20 
2. install wireless-tools, and attempt to use airport card 
3. cry 
Actual Results:  
crying 

Expected Results:  
working airport card 

Portage 2.0.47-r8 (default-ppc-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-ppc-r2 ppc 
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config 
/usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
USE="oss xv jpeg nls mitshm gif imlib png truetype gdbm berkdb slang readline 
tetex tcltk java mysql tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python oggvorbis qt motif opengl 
ldap cdr ppc X kde sdl dvd arts gtk2 -gtk -gpm -alsa -gnome -mozilla -gnome-libs 
-mmx -sse -3dnow -3dfx -esd" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mcpu=750 -mpowerpc-gfxopt -mstring -mmultiple" 
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mcpu=750 -mpowerpc-gfxopt -mstring -mmultiple" 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
FEATURES="ccache"

[Comment 1 Lars Weiler (RETIRED) 2003-03-09 11:28:01 UTC]

Had the same version mismatch on my system, but the card worked.
With the written solution it works without any faults.

The linux-headers-2.4.20 is marked hppa only and -x86 -ppc...

[Comment 2 Bartosch Pixa (RETIRED) 2003-04-27 23:04:50 UTC]

the problem here isn't linux-headers but wireless-tools as these should be using
/usr/src/linux instead of /usr/include/linux.
the fix to wireless-tools is in the works. :)

closing bug